A whole city in the cup: Rome in a cappuccino, a harbor in black coffee
Color in coffee while you drink coffee
Black and white pages, AI-colored "afters"
From wild Arabica in Kaffa to a train platform of vending machines
GlazzyArray coloring in the coloring books with Starlee and ALTA watching her show off her speed in coloring. The Incline Village coffee shop cafe has an underwater hockey ring on the lake.
Showcase
Coffee, All the Way Down
Christian's AI-generated coffee coloring book, Color In Coffee: Vol. 1, published May 13, 2026 and on Amazon: cafés, whole cities inside cups, a train platform, drying beds and wild Arabica beans. Black-and-white pages are shown beside AI-colored versions, with AI clips of GlazyArray, A.L.T.A. and Starlee coloring along, one in an Incline Village café by the lake.
This Note is a showcase of one of my coloring books, Color In Coffee: Vol. 1. Every page is about coffee. It came out on May 13, 2026, and it's on Amazon now.
All our characters helping a happy group of people on the playa color in some coloring books.All our characters helping a happy group of people by the lake color in some coloring books.A tea room with carved screens, hanging lanterns, a coffee pot on a brazier and a sailboat out the window.
I love coffee, and I thought it would be fun to color in coffee while you drink coffee. It's a coffee table book about the coffee on the table. You can color in coffee while you color in coffee.
A coffee and a croissant on a marble table, under a crystal chandelier in a mirrored café.A café corner: a velvet bench, coffee and water, a basilica in the mirror and an orchestra through the arch.
How the pages were made
A harbor city inside a cup of black coffee, a domed capitol at its center.Coffee vending machines on a crowded train platform.A cappuccino and a croissant on a marble counter, a piazza out the window.
The book is AI-generated. The prompts were crafted over time and refined again and again until they were tailored to the subject, page by page. Any lettering and signs in the scenes were planned in the prompts before a single image was made.
Rome in a cappuccino: the Tiber and the Colosseum in the foam.A painted bus on a mountain road and small cups of el tinto, Colombia.Two coffee beans with mountains inside: wild Arabica from the Kaffa region, Ethiopia.
The book itself is black and white: line art, left open for your color. For each page I also had AI color a version and picked one as an "after" that shows one way it could turn out. Here are a few pairs side by side: the harbor city, Rome in a cappuccino, the bus in Colombia and the glass from Trieste. The rest follow in a spread, mostly in color, with a few of the line-art pages whose compositions I like best. They can be colored any way you want.
Raking coffee on raised drying beds, a moka pot and notebook nearby.A cup holding mountains, a river and little tanks, framed in gears and coffee cherries.A glass of coffee as a cutaway of the karst near Trieste: plateau, sea, caves and underground rivers.
Rooms
A woman and child processing coffee beansI visual inside a cup of coffee showing the land in a cup of coffee.
A tea room with carved screens and hanging lanterns, a pot on a little brazier and a sailboat out the window. A mirrored café with a crystal chandelier, a coffee and a croissant on a marble table. A café corner with a velvet bench, where one mirror shows a domed basilica and pigeons and the archway beside it shows an orchestra playing.
I visual inside a cup of coffee showing a map in a cup of coffee.A man scooping water while processing coffeeSix cups of coffee and inside each is a visual of where that coffee comes from.
A whole place in the cup
Cover of the book.A timeline displayed on top. of coffee being brewed.A tea room with carved screens, hanging lanterns, a coffee pot on a brazier and a sailboat out the window. - COLOR
A harbor city floats in a cup of black coffee, with a domed capitol in the middle and ships around the rim. Rome sits in a cappuccino, the Tiber curling through the foam past the Colosseum. A glass of coffee becomes a cutaway of the karst near Trieste: the plateau on top, the Adriatic on the horizon, caves and underground rivers below. Another cup holds mountains, a river and a row of little tanks, framed in gears and coffee cherries. One page lines up six cups, each showing where its coffee comes from.
A coffee and a croissant on a marble table, under a crystal chandelier in a mirrored café. - COLORA café corner: a velvet bench, coffee and water, a basilica in the mirror and an orchestra through the arch. - COLOR
Where coffee starts
A harbor city inside a cup of black coffee, a domed capitol at its center. - COLORCoffee vending machines on a crowded train platform. - COLORA cappuccino and a croissant on a marble counter, a piazza out the window. - COLOR
Two coffee beans with mountains inside them, ringed by a banner about wild Arabica from the Kaffa region of Ethiopia. Two people raking coffee on raised drying beds, a moka pot and a notebook nearby. A woman and a child processing coffee beans, and a man scooping water as he works the coffee. A painted bus on a mountain road in Colombia and small cups of el tinto. There's even a timeline, laid over a pot of coffee as it brews. And one from a train platform: a row of coffee vending machines, hot and cold, and a man in a suit holding a can while the crowd waits.
Rome in a cappuccino: the Tiber and the Colosseum in the foam. - COLORA painted bus on a mountain road and small cups of el tinto, Colombia. - COLORTwo coffee beans with mountains inside: wild Arabica from the Kaffa region, Ethiopia. - COLOR
Coloring along
Raking coffee on raised drying beds, a moka pot and notebook nearby. - COLORA cup holding mountains, a river and little tanks, framed in gears and coffee cherries. - COLORA glass of coffee as a cutaway of the karst near Trieste: plateau, sea, caves and underground rivers. - COLOR
I also made a few looping AI clips of GlazyArray, A.L.T.A. and Starlee helping people color the books: at a table, out on the playa and by the lake. The one at the top of this Note is set in a coffee shop in Incline Village, with an underwater hockey area out on the lake. If you know, you know. GlazyArray colors as fast as she can while Starlee and A.L.T.A. watch her show off.
A woman and child processing coffee beans - COLORI visual inside a cup of coffee showing the land in a cup of coffee. - COLOR
Color In Coffee: Vol. 1 is on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H2HJ33RZ
I visual inside a cup of coffee showing a map in a cup of coffee. - COLORA man scooping water while processing coffee. - COLORSix cups of coffee and inside each is a visual of where that coffee comes from. - COLOR
Pour a cup first.
A timeline displayed on top. of coffee being brewed. - COLOR
Selected works
The prompts for Color In Coffee: Vol. 1 crafted over time and refined page by page, with every sign and bit of lettering planned before an image was made.
Color In Coffee: Vol. 1 published, available on Amazon.
The book showcased in Field Notes: black and white pages beside AI-colored "afters", plus three looping clips of the characters helping people color.
In conversation
Why coffee?
I love coffee, and I thought it would be fun to color in coffee while you drink coffee. It's a coffee table book about the coffee on the table. You can color in coffee while you color in coffee.
How were the pages made?
This is an AI generated Coloring Book. The prompts were crafted over time and meticulously refined to be hyper tailored for the subject.
What about the signs and lettering in the scenes?
Any lettering and signs in the scenes were planned in the prompts before a single image was made.
And the color versions?
BW is what is in the book. COLOR is the "after" version I selected to color them. They can be colored anyway the person wants.
